The attack was quickly detected and contained within one segment of the network. The compromised information may include names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, diagnosis codes, insurance information, and treatment service types.

Multiple cities and districts in western Germany have been paralyzed by a ransomware attack. The attack encrypted the servers of the local municipal service provider Südwestfalen IT, affecting over 70 municipalities.

The RansomedVC group, which recently claimed responsibility for several high-profile attacks, is now up for sale. The owner, citing personal reasons and a desire to avoid monitoring by federal agencies, is offering a 20% discount to a trusted buyer.

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of suspected exploitation of a recently disclosed critical security flaw in the Apache ActiveMQ open-source message broker service that could result in remote code execution. "In both instances, the adversary attempted to deploy...

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has officially announced CVSS v4.0, the next generation of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System standard, more than eight years after the release of CVSS v3.0 in June 2015. "This latest version of CVSS...

The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign targeting two Israeli entities to ultimately deploy a legitimate remote administration tool from N-able called Advanced Monitoring Agent. Cybersecurity firm Deep...

As many as 34 unique vulnerable Windows Driver Model (WDM) and Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF) drivers could be exploited by non-privileged threat actors to gain full control of the devices and execute arbitrary code on the underlying systems. "By exploiting the...

This new product offers SaaS discovery and risk assessment coupled with a free user access review in a unique “freemium” model Securing employees' SaaS usage is becoming increasingly crucial for most cloud-based organizations. While numerous tools are available to...

According to a report by security firm Sophos, 75% of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations involve the malicious encryption of data. This reflects the increasing skill level of hackers in the healthcare sector.

Dallas County in Texas has provided an update on a ransomware attack that was reported earlier this week. The county was able to stop the hackers before they could encrypt files or systems.